Contributed by Sangram Majumdar / I think I met Angelina first through a mutual friend Karla Wozniak when Karla and I were residents at the […]
Author: Editor
Art and Film: Ursa meta
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / These times demand both mordant humor and serious contemplation, which helps explain the prevalence of meticulously packaged black comedies in […]
Ilana Savdie: Carnival abstraction
Contributed by Paul Laster / Blurring the boundary between abstraction and figuration, Ilana Savdie makes colorful canvases that take the eye on a rollercoaster ride […]
Kathryn Lynch: Allusive places
Contributed by Patrick Neal / Sometimes we see something better when we dont look directly at it. This thought permeated my viewing of Kathryn Lynchs […]
Lauren Luloff: Absorbed into color
Contributed by Erin Yerby / Lauren Luloffs semi-transparent panels of silk, in their very stillness, betray a slight flutter of movement like a winged creature […]
Gallery crawl: Miller, Grabner, Pincus-Whitney, Boyle, Otero, Pope.L, Nelson, Arcangel
Contributed by Sharon Butler / I stopped by James Cohan on Grand Street to see Michelle Grabners beautiful show of small-scale paintings and panel pieces, sized […]
Adam Henry: Full spectrum
Contributed by Adam Simon / It has been argued that there is no such thing as an abstract painting anymore, only pictures of abstract paintings. […]
Powhida on Biden: A man for this season
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The art that accompanies magazine articles usually seems decorative and functional, there merely to cheer up black-and-white text and interrupt […]
Jack Tworkov: Laying down line
Contributed by Sharon Butler / In the 1960s, Jack Tworkov began to feel as if he had taken Ab-Ex gestural abstraction as far as it […]
David Byrd’s palpable tenderness
Contributed by Craig Taylor / The late David Byrds affecting show, on view at Anton Kern Gallery, revolves around what he called his magnum opus: […]
Andrew Zarou’s particular beat
Contributed by Ben Pritchard / Andrew Zarous compelling exhibition at The Painting Center is resonant of the comprehensive order that one might covet in a […]
Martin Kline: Tempered by discipline
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Martin Klines meticulous and thoughtful abstractions, on view at Heather Gaudio Fine Art, are deceptively simple. At first glance, they […]
Medrie MacPhee, David Humphrey, and the power of recognition
Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / In the 1940s, Philip Guston noted that the problem with figurative art was that it vanishes into recognition. By 1960, […]
Stanley Rosen: Slabs and coils, scallops and disks
Contributed by Rachel Youens / Stanley Rosen came of age as a sculptor during the 1960s and 1970s, when ceramicists and sculptors were challenging the […]
The “whorish porous” in the work of Angela Dufresne
Contributed by Andrew Woolbright / Angela Dufresnes dual shows at Yossi Milo Gallery and M+B Los Angeles provide an opportunity to assess the full breadth […]
